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NTT ICC Inter Communication Center
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Aki Inomata
Aki Inomata’s works are often collaborations between life forms. Her projects include transparent shells shaped like cities or architectural structures created with a 3D printer and given to hermit crabs to wear, 3D printer-generated sculptures of cityscapes placed on the backs of turtles, clothing for dogs and humans made out of each other’s hair, pieces of women’s clothing given to bagworm moths to use as cocoons, and a parakeet taught to speak French.
Inomata bases her works on research into the biology and particular traits of the creatures in her collaborations. People tend to think that because non-human life forms live in different worlds and according to different principles, our means of communicating with them are severely limited. By overlapping the behaviors of non-humans and the human world, Inomata re-examines human behavior from a different angle in to rediscover our own nature. While searching for new forms of communication between humans and non-human life forms, she seeks to discover the respective roles of both, ultimately creating a kind of fiction. In addition to several recent works, this exhibition presents Inomata’s latest project, “Lines— Listening to the Growth Lines of Shellfish ver. 1.0.” This work creates sound from the growth lines of shellfish, which record changes in environment similar to rings on trees.
[Related Event]
Artist’s Talk by Aki Inomata (in Japanese)
Guest: Taro Igarashi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)
Date: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 2:00 pm
Venue: ICC 4F special stage
Capacity: 150 persons (first-come basis)
Admission: free
Please see the official website for details.
Inomata bases her works on research into the biology and particular traits of the creatures in her collaborations. People tend to think that because non-human life forms live in different worlds and according to different principles, our means of communicating with them are severely limited. By overlapping the behaviors of non-humans and the human world, Inomata re-examines human behavior from a different angle in to rediscover our own nature. While searching for new forms of communication between humans and non-human life forms, she seeks to discover the respective roles of both, ultimately creating a kind of fiction. In addition to several recent works, this exhibition presents Inomata’s latest project, “Lines— Listening to the Growth Lines of Shellfish ver. 1.0.” This work creates sound from the growth lines of shellfish, which record changes in environment similar to rings on trees.
[Related Event]
Artist’s Talk by Aki Inomata (in Japanese)
Guest: Taro Igarashi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)
Date: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 2:00 pm
Venue: ICC 4F special stage
Capacity: 150 persons (first-come basis)
Admission: free
Please see the official website for details.
Schedule | May 23 (Sat) 2015-Aug 1 (Sat) 2015 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Open Space: Free. Special Exhibitions: Depends on each event. | ||||
| Venue | NTT ICC Inter Communication Center http://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/  | ||||
| Location | 4F Tokyo Opera City Tower, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from the East exit of Hatsudai Station on the Keio New line, 11 minute walk from Sangubashi Station on the Odakyu Odawara line, 12 minute walk from A2 exit at Nishi-Shinjuku-gochome Station on the Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 0120-144199 | ||||
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